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February 2022

February 25, 2022

Dark Devotional: The Firelight of Life

Alleluia for February 27, 2022 Shine like lights in the world as you hold...

February 17, 2022

Dark Devotional: Let Me Smite Him

“G-d hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite...

February 03, 2022

Dark Devotional: Woe to Me, for I Have Been Silent

Woe is me, I am doomed! For I am lost; I am a man of...

January 2022

January 27, 2022

Dark Devotional: Love Is….

When I was asked and gladly assented to do this week’s Dark Devotional, I...

January 20, 2022

Dark Devotional: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Apologetics

I too have decided, after investigating everything accurately anew, to write it down in...

January 13, 2022

Dark Devotional: From Good Wine to Bitter Faith

Weddings are stressful, even when everyone is behaving themselves. When people start misbehaving, weddings can...

January 07, 2022

Dark Devotional: Faith is a Tension

I’ve had a cold ever since returning from my Christmas holiday extravaganza with family...

December 2021

December 30, 2021

Dark Devotional: New Light in the Night Sky

We saw his star at its rising and have come to do him homage (Matt....

December 23, 2021

Dark Devotional: The Virgin Mary’s Guide to Biblical Motherhood

When his parents saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son,...

December 16, 2021

Dark Devotional: Mary, Motherhood, and Mixed Feelings

Dark Devotional: Mary, Motherhood, and Mixed Feelings Behold, I am the handmaid of...

December 09, 2021

Dark Devotional: Holding the Door for Jesus

Fear not, O Zion, be not discouraged! The Lord, your God, is in your...

November 2021

November 19, 2021

Dark Devotional: Can We Love the Alien?

This Sunday is the last Sunday in the liturgical year, the Solemnity of Our...

November 12, 2021

Dark Devotional: The Death of the World

It shall be a time unsurpassed in distress since nations began until that time (Dan....

November 05, 2021

Dark Devotional: Can We Live on Bread Alone?

The first reading this Sunday is the story of the woman who shared her last...

October 2021

October 22, 2021

Dark Devotional: Am I an Atheist?

"Go your way; your faith has saved you." ~Mk 10:52 About a month ago I...

October 15, 2021

Dark Devotional: The Divine Bellhop

James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus and said to him, “Teacher,...

October 08, 2021

Dark Devotional: Everything Is Naked

No creature is concealed from him, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes...

October 01, 2021

Dark Devotional: It Is Not Good to Be Alone

I sit and wait Does an angel contemplate my fate? And do they know...

September 2021

September 24, 2021

Dark Devotional: Mind Your Own Distractions

If your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out; it is better for you...

September 17, 2021

Dark Devotional: Playing Craps with Jesus

“If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and...

September 10, 2021

Dark Devotional: Get Thee Behind Me, Lord

I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living (Ps. 116:9). ...

September 03, 2021

Dark Devotional: Silence, the Love Language of God

“Then will the eyes of the blind be opened, the ears of the deaf...

August 2021

August 27, 2021

Dark Devotional: Why Fundamentalists Fear Empathy

This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; in...

August 20, 2021

Dark Devotional: Submit

Last week my husband and I celebrated our 20th anniversary. “But Theresa!,” you ask...

August 13, 2021

Dark Devotional: When the Virgin Cast Off Her Veil

Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary The queen stands at your right...

August 06, 2021

Dark Devotional: Of Hearth-Cakes and Knitted Sweaters: An Unlikely Portrait of God

During a surprisingly moving formation session, a group of us sat around doing a...

July 2021

July 30, 2021

Dark Devotional: He Who Comes to Me Will Never Be Hungry

It was 8.30am on Ash Wednesday, 10 February 2016, when I noticed an email from...

July 23, 2021

Dark Devotional: What Do You Do for the Poor?

Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were reclining, and...

July 16, 2021

Dark Devotional: A Wolf in Shepherd’s Clothing

Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who shepherd my people:...

July 09, 2021

Dark Devotional: Prophet in a Bathrobe

For context, dear reader, a little “Inside Baseball” on how Sick Pilgrim chooses writers for...